Section 2-203 – Duties of Director of Geological Survey
The Director of the Survey shall exercise any power or duty and general supervision over matters conferred upon the Survey by law, subject to the authority of the Secretary.
Section 2-204 – Commission of the Maryland Geological Survey
(a) There is a Commission of the Maryland Geological Survey in the Survey. It consists of five members appointed by the Secretary from among citizens of the State who have character, ability, and active interest in the proper development, use, and conservation of geologic, mineral, and water resources. The members shall select their own chairman. A […]
Section 2-401 – Joint Ownership of Monuments
Any monument which marks the common boundary between the State and any adjacent state, commonwealth, or district is the joint property of the State and the adjoining state, commonwealth, or district.
Section 2-402 – Duty and Authority of Survey
The Survey shall examine, at least once every ten years, every monument which marks the boundaries of the State. Whenever the Survey finds the monument is lost, removed, or displaced causing the boundary to become obscure, inaccurate, or incorrect, it shall cooperate with the proper officials and agencies of the adjacent state, commonwealth, or district […]
Section 2-403 – Survey’s Right of Entry on Land
The Survey may enter on any public or private property to examine any boundary monument. However, the Survey may not enter during the growing season on any land planted with crops which might be damaged by any entry.
Section 2-404 – Destruction or Possession of Monument Prohibited
A person may not move, remove, break, mutilate, deface, destroy, or otherwise injure any monument marking any boundary between the State and any adjacent state, commonwealth, or district. Any person who possesses any monument previously placed, or prepared to be placed, on any State boundary, upon demand by the Survey, shall surrender and deliver the […]
Section 2-405 – Enforcement of Subtitle
The Natural Resources police officers and forest or park wardens of the State have the power of arrest and other powers necessary to enforce this subtitle.
Section 2-406 – Exception to Subtitle
This section does not require either the Maryland Historical Society or the Historical Society of Pennsylvania to surrender or deliver to the Department the Mason and Dixon Monument placed in the custody of each society by the mutual consent of the State and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1902.
Section 2-407 – Penalty for Violation of Subtitle
Any person who violates any provision of this subtitle is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction is subject to a fine not exceeding $50 for each offense with costs imposed in the discretion of the court.
Section 2-101 – Enumeration
(a) In this title the following words have the meanings indicated. (b) “Commission” means Commission of the Maryland Geological Survey. (c) “Department” means Department of Natural Resources. (d) “Paleontology” means the branch of geology that deals with prehistoric forms of life through the study of plant and animal fossils. (e) “Secretary” means Secretary of Natural Resources. (f) “Survey” means Maryland Geological […]